it does not matter whether the president calls, begs, cries. those republicans will not agree with anything. they are going home now to their fancy homes. according to mitt romney, forget about the 47%. i am 71. my husband is 80. we will survive. the president should let all of the tax expire, all bush tax cuts, whatever it is, expire. start from scratch. we would not feel it. it is over 10 years. no matter what little we have, we will survive, and we will deal with what we have. host: we have been covering a lot of the fiscal cliff negotiations, what has been happening on the hill. we just heard from the white house, from president obama. you can go to our special page of the season and website, hamas -- our cspan website, c- span.org/fiscalcliff. we are taking your phone calls. we want to see what to think about the remarks from the president and what has been happening on capitol hill. the numbers are on your screen. we go to arizona, the republicans line. caller: i think what is happening is that these congressmen, no matter whether republi